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World Engineering Day

World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development is celebrated on 4th March every year as a UNESCO international day of celebration of engineers and engineering.  The day offers an opportunity to highlight engineers and engineering’s achievements in our modern world and improve public understanding of how engineering and technology are central to modern life and for sustainable development.   The celebration of World Engineering Day is also about promoting engineering as a career and how it is an opportunity to change the world for…

Build the Future

This year's theme for the National Apprenticeship Week, taking place 8-14th February, is 'Build the Future'. The campaign celebrates the diversity of opportunity and value that apprenticeships bring and how they can help individuals and employers build their future. Train, retain and achieve Becoming an apprentice allows young people to increase their confidence, skills, knowledge and start them off to some incredible careers, but from a business perspective, there are just as many benefits to employing an apprentice. The growing skills gap…

Supporting charities in 2021

At JCA we are building a positive, sustainable business that contributes towards our community by creating environmental and social value, as well as contributing to the broader societies in which we work.  Each year, our employees select two charities to support throughout the year through direct fundraising activities and collections organised internally. One of these is usually local to our head office in Stevenage and the other with a national reach. In January 2020, our staff voted to offer fundraising…